31 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : 18 Days of Reckless Computing - 18 Days of Reckless Computing: "What kind of idiot buys a computer and willingly – even eagerly – exposes it to all the malware and viruses he can? Me."
Philippe Janvier : 18 Days of Reckless Computing - "What kind of idiot buys a computer and willingly - even eagerly - exposes it to all the malware and viruses he can ?" [via] #
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32 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Anonymity and Online Community : Identity Matters - "A person who is invested in a community through a membership system is one less likely to abuse the community." [via] #
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36 month ago
Rod Begbie : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - Extremely well-designed anti-phishing extension from Google. #
kayodeok : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophis
jimray : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - This is a great idea, I just can't help but think that your typical IE user would be better served by such a thing, though
Philippe Janvier : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - "...an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences." [via] #
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37 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Social engineering - "In the field of computer security, social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users." [via] #
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Greaseblog: Greasemonkey 0.5 Beta - All of us here in Greasemonkeyland are extremely happy to announce that Greasemonkey 0.5 beta is now available for download
Philippe Janvier : Greasemonkey 0.5 Beta - "The major news with this release is, of course, security. Install at your own risk". [via] #
Andy Baio : Greasemonkey 0.5 beta released - closes those nasty security holes, and adds some new features too
Jeremy Zawodny : Greasemonkey 0.5 Beta - Greasemonkey 0.5 Beta: with new security grease
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41 month ago
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim says Greasemonkey 0.4.1 alpha fixes all known security holes - and works with complex user scripts; here's Aaron's announcement
kayodeok : Greasemonkey 0.4.1 (The Next Generation) - Mark Pilgrim: "I can also confirm that this release closes all known security holes"
jimray : Greasemonkey is now safe again - All known security holes fixed
jkottke : Looks like the new version of Greasemonkey fixes all the security holes and is "incredibly backward-compatible"
Philippe Janvier : Greasemonkey 0.4.1 - Une nouvelle version qui semble fermer toutes les récentes failles de sécurité de cette géniale extension qu'est greasemonkey. [via] #
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41 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Insecure RSS encryption - Secure or not secure ? [via] #
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41 month ago
Isofarro : Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - Simon Willison explains the parts that combine to create this security hole. GreaseMonkey are taking action.
Richard Rutter : Simon Willison: Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - It’s not all OMG-Firefox-flaw. Just upgrade dammit..
Philippe Janvier : Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - "...until then, 0.3.5 is the only safe version of Greasemonkey". [via] #
Paul Hammond : Simon Willison: Understanding the Greasemonkey vulnerability - illustrates a number of interesting concepts in both web application security and JavaScript
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Secure RSS Syndication - "In this article I present a Greasemonkey script to make FireFox decrypt a Blowfish-encrypted feed shown in Bloglines on the fly. And the encrypted data, it's held in a microformat."
Andy Baio : Secure RSS syndication with Greasemonkey and Bloglines - very neat hack for encrypting your feeds [via] [via]
Philippe Janvier : Secure RSS Syndication - "...a method for encrypting RSS feeds with Blowfish, and for decrypting them on the fly using Greasemonkey...". [via] #
nelson : Secure RSS syndication - Encryption + greasemonkey + RSS, wonder if anyone really uses it?
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43 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Banning Google Web Accelerator - "...a page you can display to people who you are restricting from accessing your site because they're using Google's nefarious spyware". [via] #
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44 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Your Identity, Open to All - Information business : "The information itself is not new. But technology has sped up the rate at which it can be obtained and reduced the cost involved". [via] #
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44 month ago
kayodeok : Password generator - a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site/server by putting a completely obvious name for that resource i
deusx : Password generator - Hashes password with site name / URL, allows single password entry yet unique string per site. What, no Greasemonkey script?
Philippe Janvier : Password generator - "...a little Javascript program that will concatenate two fields and MD5 them". [via] #
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47 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Password Production - "...if you're looking for a way to generate harder-to-crack passwords, there's one possibility". [via] #
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